OTAGO TWO DAY WORKSHOP NEX - MAKING SENSE OF LITERACY & GETTING ON WITH SOCIAL SKILLS

Welcome to the Network of Expertise – Supporting Teachers Practice.

The Network of Expertise aim is to develop a network to connect Teachers and Kaiako, to build a shared collective identity for ongoing mutual learning to build capability and is led by Dr Maree Kirk.

In practical terms this PLD network is ‘FOR TEACHERS BY TEACHERS’ aimed at enhancing professional knowledge, skills and resources and developing rich learning and assessment tasks for inclusive pedagogy with an interest in students with the range of learning disabilities and Down syndrome.

We invite you to a two-day interactive workshop which has been developed to enhance professional knowledge, skill, and resources, to problem solve, strategise, and develop rich learning across our local teacher to teacher group for Literacy and Social skills for students.

These two-days will incorporate multisensory literacy and social skill strategies, theory to practice and resources to support students to:

• Develop vocabulary
• Build comprehension
• Focus on key literacy and language skills
• Build confidence
• Develop communication skills
• Develop social skills

· The specific learning profile of students with Down Syndrome

• A range of resources will be available to work with on these days school teams
• Take the resources back to your school to work with students